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House of Commons

Notices of Amendments

given up to and including

Thursday 19 April 2018

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Amendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

Amendments tabled since the last publication: 7 and 8

Consideration of Bill (Report Stage)

Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences)

Bill, As Amended

Note

This document includes all amendments tabled to date and includes any

withdrawn amendments at the end. The amendments have been arranged in the

order in which they relate to the Bill.

Chris Bryant

Holly Lynch

Philip Davies

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Clause  1,  page  1,  line  3,  after “battery” insert “including spitting”

Member’s explanatory statement

This makes explicit that this section applies to incidents of assault or battery that are spitting.

Notices of Amendments: 19 April 2018                  

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Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) , continued

Chris Bryant

Holly Lynch

Jim Fitzpatrick

Jo Stevens

Mr Bob Seely

Liz Twist

Mohammad Yasin

Philip Davies

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Clause  2,  page  2,  line  39,  at end insert—

“(aa)    

an offence under section 3 (sexual assualt) of the Sexual Offences Act

2003”

Member’s explanatory statement

This causes the fact that the victim was an emergency worker to be an aggravating factor in cases

of sexual assault.

Chris Bryant

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Page  4,  line  23,  leave out Clause 4

Chris Bryant

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Page  6,  line  6,  leave out Clause 5

Chris Bryant

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Page  8,  line  14,  leave out Clause 6

Chris Bryant

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Clause  7,  page  9,  line  37,  leave out from “only,” to end of line 38

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is consequential on Amendment 5.

Notices of Amendments: 19 April 2018                  

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Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) , continued

Chris Bryant

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Title,  line  3,  leave out from “duty;” to “and” in line 6

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is consequential on Amendments 4 to 6.

NOTICES WITHDRAWN

The following Notices were withdrawn on 5 March 2018:

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